I wasn't sure if this should go into the commons or the medical centre but I think that either would have been appropriate.
A leading doctor is saying that cancer sufferers shouldn't seek treatment and that we are wasting money trying to cure cancer because it is the best way to die. It may only be the opinion of one person but I am fucking incensed that a doctor could be so ignorant as to make a statement that basically tells sufferers it isn't worth trying to cure you and that they should be happy that this is their fate.
'You can say goodbye, reflect on your life, leave last messages, perhaps visit special places for a last time, listen to favourite pieces of music, read loved poems, and prepare, according to your beliefs, to meet your maker or enjoy eternal oblivion.
'This is, I recognise, a romantic view of dying, but it is achievable with love, morphine, and whisky.
'But stay away from overambitious oncologists, and let’s stop wasting billions trying to cure cancer, potentially leaving us to die a much more horrible death.'
You say that cancer is the best way to die because it means you get the chance to say goodbye? I'm guessing you've seen someone you care about wasting slowly away but fighting to keep going for the sake of her young son all the while blaming themselves for knowing how much it would hurt him when the end came, until they had nothing left to fight with wishing for the entire time that there was something, anything, you could do to change what was happening, even swap places with them to save them from the pain.
Suffering from dementia or Alzhiemers is horrific both for the patient and their family, something I can say from experience but there is nothing romantic about dying of cancer and for someone who is supposed to have taken a Hippocratic oath to state publicly that cancer sufferers should NOT seek treatment, at the very least, calls in to question your suitability as a practicing doctor.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2893367/Cancer-best-way-die-allows-people-time-say-goodbye-loved-ones-says-leading-doctor.html
